Additionally, congratulations are in order for PrawnSkunk on what I’ve heard the cool kids are calling ‘stumbling into a pool of strawberry jello’, or in other words joining the Administrative Team. Keep up the fantastic work man.

Greetings, FFR Community! We are excited to announce some big changes coming to the site this month. Please visit this thread to leave us your feedback and suggestions!

Ranking System ChangesSkill Rating is a new skill-based ranking system that assigns a rating to each player based on their performance on public songs. With the introduction of this new ranking system, we aim to accurately reflect the actual skill of a player after only 250 games played, and 50 unique songs passed.

Leaderboard Changes
The new Global Leaderboards feature the Skill Rating ranking system, as well as an overhaul of the classic Average Rank, Grandtotal, and Tier Points leaderboards. Players can be ranked across all leaderboards by clicking the country flags. Players of all skill and incompetency are placed into skill brackets ranging from “Novice” to “Legendary” determined by their rating.

Site-Wide Rules Changes
In order to maintain the integrity of the leaderboards, players can be reported by searching their username on the leaderboards and clicking the exclamation mark next to their name. We encourage everyone to report their alternate accounts to ensure a more accurate ranking for everyone. Verified alternate accounts will be removed from the leaderboards, but they can still view their ranks. However, users caught polluting the leaderboards with alternate accounts or abusing the report tool will not be tolerated.

Project Credits
With this update, I would like to announce Trumpet63 as the newest member of the development team! His original “Zenith Score” analysis metric violently kickstarted this project, and his continued efforts helping rework countless iterations of the skill rating formula was truly invaluable. Silvuh’s spreadsheet management and feedback during the development of “Zenith Score” sparked several innovative ideas and possibilities for the future of the rating system. s1rnight’s “GOAT Tracker” was a huge inspiration for this project, and her leaderboard logic formed the foundations of this project.

Hope you are all having a wonderful Valentine’s Day!
Here at FFR, we have heard you guys loud and clear:Disappearance of Hatsune Miku -Theatrical Version- was a really fun file, and it was a shame to make it into a token.
So we went ahead and made the file PUBLIC AGAIN!

Of course, we couldn’t just make it public again without replacing it with something…
What replaced it?
Well, that’s for you to figure out by AAAing a 89-difficulty or harder file.

Greetings everyone. Valentine’s Day is coming soon and we have another three songs to add this week. For those in Massachusetts, I hope you’re all staying safe and warm — there’s been heavy accumulations of snow in the past couple weeks.

New list is done! Exactly 200 songs from difficulties 50 to 99 appear on this list, with a total of 1500 points up for grabs. We also have some pretty sleek badges ready for you guys for gaining entry to each new tier level. The tier levels are as follows:

Huge thanks to Silvuh for the fantastic badges, Velocity and Zageron for sifting through and creating a ton of code to make this fully functional, and PrawnSkunk for helping with the implementation of a dynamic AAA tier bonus that adjusts the AAA requirements automatically as new songs are added. The first bonus point is awarded at 50% of total songs (including tokens) in FFR AAA’d, with another point awarded for every additional percentage gained. 51% of AAAs will award a player with 2 points, all the way up to 50 points for 99% of songs AAA’d.

As a general divisional rule of thumb (meaning there are indeed exceptions), having 4 points on any one song places you at least as D3. Having at least 5 points on anything, minimum D4. 6 points, D5. 7 points, approaching D6 or low D6. 8 points, mid D6. 9 points, approaching D7 or low D7. 10 points, mid D7. 11 points, high D7. And 12+ points on either of the 14 point songs, wtf-tier (which at the moment is solely held by none other than you know who). Happy tier hunting!

Annual Forum Awards

Deadline’s coming up in just a few short days. If you plan on submitting votes for the 2014 Annual Forum Awards or TWG Awards, get them in while you still can! Votes will be accepted up to 11:59 PM server time on February 1st.

Also fully expecting feminist backlashes in the comment section for the salutation.

Sup kiddos. As usual, we have a spectacular trio of songs for you guys, but what makes this week truly monumental is that we are about to acknowledge Pan Dimensional Donkey Queefs as an FFR musician. What are SotWs coming to?